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What does Economies of Scale mean?

The cost advantages that enterprises obtain due to their scale of operation, with cost per unit of output decreasing which scale increases.

Economies of Scale in a sentence
As the company grew, it achieved significant economies of scale, allowing it to lower its prices and outcompete smaller rivals.

Economies of Scale in German, French, Spanish and Italian

German
Skaleneffekte
also Größenvorteile

Kostenvorteile durch steigende Produktionsmengen (Skaleneffekte).

French
Économies d'échelle

Baisse du coût unitaire résultant de l'augmentation de la production.

Spanish
Economías de escala

Reducción de costes unitarios al aumentar el volumen de producción.

Italian
Economie di scala

Riduzione dei costi unitari derivante dall'aumento della scala produttiva.

Synonyms and opposites for Economies of Scale

  • Synonym Cost advantages
  • Synonym Scale efficiency
  • Opposite Diseconomies of scale

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